Collaboration through technology: moving from possibility to practice - Martin Hamilton, Daniel Fairbairn

Collaboration through technology:Moving from possibility to practice Martin Hamilton, Jisc

Collaboration through technologyA quick tour through first party Jisc support and services

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Collaboration through technology: Moving from possibility to practice 02/05/2023

Collaboration through technology: Moving from possibility to practice 02/05/2023

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Connecting broadcasters and institutions

» Benefits: › Increased exposure for the

institution and its experts› Connects with national and

international broadcasters› Reduced time demands on

academics

Enables institutions to make real time video contributions to television broadcasts

» Globelynx:› Fully managed service including

booking and helpdesk› All institutions can have own

equipment» Three hubs in UK

› Professional studio available for institutions in the surrounding area to use

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Arts and humanities

» Three Jisc funded collaborative projects» Arts and humanities special interest group

› UK network of peers that have a need to use technology» Freely loanable equipment available


Janet txt

» Comprehensive suite of secure SMS services provided by PageOne

» Safely and securely distribute SMS messages that can be accessed from any internet enabled device

» Integrate into management information systems to:› Send timely information on course changes, site closures,

reminders, tutorials, deadlines, etc› Receive feedback from students and staff

» Message individuals and groups» Real time delivery confirmation


Streaming and lecture capture

» Community defined prioritised features» Multi supplier framework

› At least three suppliers and a ‘Preferred supplier’» Approved suppliers host their services and storage on Janet

network» Institutions can use framework:

› A) Directly purchase from the ‘preferred supplier’› B) Engage suppliers in a mini competition

» We would like up to ten institutions to be listed on the procurement as ‘Anchor Tenants’


Moving to the cloudHelping institutions exploit the potential of cloud computing


Cloud computing in a nutshell

Picture credit: CC-BY Jisc, from an original by Phil Wolff


Connecting to cloud providers

BBC (Pacific Quay)

HEAnet

SWAN(Glas)

SWAN(Edin)

Glasgowand

Edinburgh

IXLeeds

Leeds

OneConnect

HEAnet

Google

Akamai

VM for LGfL

GammaNHS N3Synetrix

Exa NetworksInTechnology

IXManchester

Manchester

Global Transit Level3

GoogleNetflixBBCInit7Microsoft EU (via TN)

VM for LGfL

LimelightBBC (HD 4K pilots)RM for Schools

Microsoft EU (via TN)

GoogleVM for LGfLRM for Schools

Akamai

GlobelynxInTechnology

SimplecallUpdata

Logicalis UKPipex / GXN

INUKVoicenet

Virgin RadioLINX multicast

GÉANT+

Gamma

Redstone

Voicenet

Telekom MalaysiaSimplecall Amazon Limelight DatahopNHS N3

Akamai BTnet AQL Bogons

Global Transit Tata

Global Transit Level 3GÉANT

Telehouse North and West

Telecity Harbour Exch.

LINX

100Gbit/s10Gbit/s1Gbit/s

The Janet network provides 1 Terabit/second of external connectivity


Cloud services and support from Jisc

Helping institutions to move to the cloud» Colocation and shared data centres» Financial X-Ray – understand the costs

of your IT services» Data archiving framework agreement» Arcus portal for institutional

management of Amazon Web Services usage

» Board and committee paper management

» Deals with Google and Microsoft for their cloud collaboration suites


Cloud collaboration suites

Google Apps for Education

» Free cloud based collaboration suite for EDU and non-profits› Based on commercial product used by more than 5 million businesses

» SLA backed versions of popular consumer apps like Gmail and Google Drive

» Integrated with institutional single sign-on and identity management» Built-in Virtual Learning Environment, Google Classroom» Marketplace for extensions» Unlimited storage



Microsoft Office 365

» Free cloud based collaboration suite for EDU and non-profits

» Based on commercial product with over 60 million monthly active users

» Integrated with institutional single sign-on and identity management

» Class Notebook collaboration product

» Marketplace for extensions» 1TB storage and 50GB inbox per

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The institutional experience» The University of Dundee

migrated all of its 22,000 student accounts to Microsoft’s Office365 for Education service over a week

» They note that this was achieved with zero down time, and estimate that Office365 “will save us at least £500,000 in infrastructure and staffing over five years.” - see bit.ly/jisc-dundee


http://bit.ly/jisc-dundee

jisc.ac.uk

Collaboration through technology

Moving from possibility to practiceMartin [email protected]


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